The Steelers Play Jaguar Kart
Well, there’s always the one team that loses at home in Divisional Weekend. The Eagles and Vikings tried to be that team, but ultimately it was the Steelers that embarrassed themselves to the highest degree. Jaguar Kart is a leading cause of doomed friendships.
I don’t know if the Steelers “overlooked” the Jags or not. A lot of noise has been made about Mike Mitchell’s comments about getting to play the Patriots again but a lot of it seems to forget that Mitchell said that stuff in week 15 after the close loss to the Pats. It feels as if the media took those comments and presented them (even to the Jaguars players themselves) as comments that just happened last week. The Jags appeared to use it as motivation regardless, rightly so. The Jags spanked the Steelers early this year when nobody had yet to realize this Jags team was legit and the Steelers probably did overlook them at that point.
I think the Steelers just did what the Steelers usually do. They play to their opponent. Or maybe what they think their opponent is. This is a running trend under Tomlin so maybe somebody needs to play some slap-face until he gets it. I don’t think the Steelers played badly. They put up 42 points! The defense certainly sucked but it hasn’t been great this season and Shazier’s injury hurt them a lot. The Jags are just a legitimately good team with an all-star defense and an offense that feels built around minimizing Bortles’ faults. Smart coaching. Great playmakers. Hall of fame shit-talking. This is such a lovable Jags team and they are essentially this season’s Agent of Chaos, which means you should all be 100% on the Bortles Bandwagon. Support The Bort. One more win and he has more playoff victories than Tony Romo. Bortles shall be our savior. More Bortles success means more Bortles memes, jokes, and face. Everyone should want this.
In some ways playing the Patriots is the best thing that could happen because this team clearly thrives on the underdog disrespect aspect. Despite them destroying the Steelers earlier this year everyone more or less picked the Steelers to win this week (including myself, honestly. I knew the Jags had a good chance but didn’t expect lightning to strike twice). They tore that up by jumping out to a big lead and never relinquishing it even when the Steelers fought back hard. Next week, despite this victory, the Patriots will still be very much the expected favorite. This is the kind of team that could ruin the Pats. A strong, stifling defense that makes QBs uncomfortable? A run game that can pound the hell out of the rock and eat minutes keeping Brady off the field? A doofy-ass QB? I expect the Patriots to win because life is hell, but this team can absolutely do it.
Actually, fuck that. If this team thrives on disrespect then the Jaguars are a bunch of lucky losers who don’t deserve to be here and the Patriots will wipe the floor with them.
Go Jags!
One last thing: I want to give a small shout-out to the Jaguars subreddit, one of the only subreddits I still bother checking, because they make hilarious shit and they use a lot of my own work as flairs. I love anyone who embraces the stupid fun aspect of sports fandom instead of being a self-serious jackass fan.
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“We going to the SuperBowl. And we gonna win that bitch!” – Jalen Ramsey
Those gifs are freaking amazing, but you owe my wife the hour sleep she just lost from me waking her up laughing.
Seeing Mike Mitchell AND Sean Payton both lose in glorious fashion is the best thing that this week could’ve offered!
I know! That was the kind of thing that happens TO the Vikings, not something that’s done BY them. However, being the eternal pessimist (read: Vikings fan) that I am, I can’t help but be discouraged by the defensive and offensive play in the second half. They need to get their act together or the Eagles will walk all over us.
That’s my concern as well, it’s almost as if teams were trying to hand the title to the Eagles. I wouldn’t be surprised at this point.
If you had told me before the season that Nick Foles, Case Keenum, and Blake Bortles would all be starting in championship games, I’d tell you that was one fucked up Madden Sim. Such a weird season.
Of course it’s the Pats that are gonna fuck it all up in the end.
I lol’d at the latiku ref, nice touch
you should do a comic about how to jags fanbase went from like 1,000 to 10,000 in a matter of seconds
Poppin’ Bortles!
By the way Dave, enjoy Pat Shurmur as your new head coach. He really did a turn-around with the Vikings and I think he can do great things for the Giants as well.
BTW Dave, I thought you’d appreciate this gem from the Giants subreddit, if you haven’t already seen it: https://np.reddit.com/r/NYGiants/comments/7qnmet/pats_fan_with_a_legitimate_question/dsqirra/?st=jchtrtko&sh=5c43f406
Watching that Vikings play and how retarded number 43 was is actually enfuriating. I’m happy for the Vikings but Jesus Christ
This is the week being a Pats fan hurts the most. I detest the Steelers, and the Jags win and Jags epic shit-talking was a joy.
No, us Texans fans, we’re all going for Cased God Keenum.
Go Vikings.
I’m pretty sure a Keenum-Bortles Super Bowl is what God intended. He told me.
I wanted the Jags to win since the start of the playoffs, all so that Blake Bortles could be the Super Bowl MVP. When you think of a Super Bowl caliber QB, what comes to mind? Tom Brady? Steve Young? John Elway? What about Blake Bortles? What a meme. However, everyone wants the Jags to win, but not for the same reasons as me. They are only rooting for them so Tom Brady loses, and if he does we’ll have enough memes to last us the year. But I hate when people do that to Brady. He’s a good guy, and he’s getting faulted for his coaches actions (ex. Deflategate, Spygate). So now, I don’t know if I should root for the Jags or the Patriots, but regardless I want the winner of that match to win the Super Bowl.
I don’t know about deflategate being a coaching thing.
I don’t know about deflategate being a thing at all.
It is a thing in the minds of all “mouth breathing, sister banging” Steelers fans.
Support the Bort! I tried to load up on BORT license plates but they were sold out.
Haaa….
I so badly want to see a JAX/MIN SB. Like super bad. Obviously, I want the Vikings to win.
As part of the evil Empire.
Bortlewalker will not have the force to guide him
Games over .500 in the playoffs:
Peyton Manning: 1
Blake Bortles: 2
Fuck me (Stillers fan)
Even though I kind of root for the Steelers, I’m actually quite happy that they lost to the Jags because I have absolutely no confidence in the Steelers in games against the Pats and them winning would have guaranteed another Lombardi parade around Foxboro.
As has happened, there’s still a chance. A minuscule chance, but still. Sure, the universe is cruel and hates fun so the Pats will obviously win it all again, but this way we still have some hope, unlike no hope at all with the Steelers.
Go Jags. Go out and win the whole thing, you magnificent cats.
The Steelers always fail against bad teams or just teams that aren’t very good, even in the post season.
http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/jets-win-jets-win/
http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/the-steelers-versus-bad-teams/ and of course,
http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/mike-glennon-gets-the-game-ball/
Plus there was week 5 this year and last year against a then 1-4 Miami team
“Bad team”?! Bad teams don’t make it to the Championship round. Bad teams choke.
How explitive insulting to say “The Steelers looked past the Jaguars”. That statement discounts the work and talent of the Jaguars team. The Jaguars have now destroyed the Steelers twice in recent history and it was because the Jaguars are the superior football team–emphasis on “team”.
Also, the Jags have the Steelers number. Many outside the fanbases forget that these teams used to be AFC Central rivals. It was a good rivalry too. One time Coach Cowher came on the field and almost clotheslined a Jaguar who was returning a blocked field goal attempt. I truly miss it. BTW the Jags hold the all time Win/Loss record in this matchup and Pittsburgh was the first team that the Jaguars ever beat so historically the Steelers should be used to getting whipped by the Jags.
And while I’m ranting, cold weather doesn’t affect professionals so could every hack sportscaster drop that b.s. line about Florida teams playing outdoors in the north in Dec/Jan?
I’m a Steelers fan. Congrats to the Jags. I genuinely wish you the best. Please crush the Patriots. We’d use our godly influence to sway events, but Belichick is an evil wizard whose dark magic is strong enough to keep us from giving you the Super Bowl you really want.